It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.

Like the song "Stereo", to me that's like, kind of hip-hop in that slacker way. There's some slackerisms mixed in with that stuff, but it wasn't really conscious, I guess. When things would get more typical rock'n'roll that was my fallback to go to those kind of lyrics instead of the alternatives.